Improvement in stacking actrfoylturat products



O. W. GLOVER.

STAOKING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.

PATENTED DEC. 28

To allwhom it mayconcem:

Be itknownthat I, CARLOS W. GLOVER, of I the town of FarmRidgefin thecounty La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improvedmode ofstacking grain and grass, or,

. U ITED f STATES PATENT OFFICE.

oanLos W. eLoVna, OF ARMJRIDGE, ASSIGNOR :rof HIMSELF, AND Baouson MURRYAND DORENQOF LA SALLE COUNTY ILLINOIS.

' IMPROVEMENT m tsTAekin c ae'mout'ru Ra mo nueTs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent'No. 22,473, dated December28, 1858.

rather, of forming shocks, cocks, and stacks of the stalks or straw ofany agricultural products, whether the grain has been thrashedtherefrom'or not; and-Ijdo hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description thereof, reference beingahad to th e-accoinpanyingdrawings, and to the letters of referen -e markedthereomin whieh- Figure1 represents the material; laid out on the apron or bands.- Fig.2 represents a verti= calsectinnthrgngli.Eig;1,and Fjg.31-g rg pnf the shape ofthccock or stackjwhenfini'shed' and setup. v t I would-state that I am'"aware that cocks, shocks, and stacks of grain and other material havebeen built .up ot' a seriesof-small previ- "ously-bound bundles andcapped'by the same,

and that they have also been builtup of loose straws or stalks andcovered-or thatched in various ways. I-lay no claim to the making orbuilding of any such cocks or stacks as are built upfrom the ground bypiling up the material or setting or laying the bundles against "or ontop of-eaclrother I do not formmy stack onthe ground. -Neither doIbuildit or any par tot it-t'rom the base to theapex, but

directly the reverse, for I begin at the apex and build toward the base.1 firstfform-a bat ors'p'read-out'mat oftwo, three, four, or morelengths of-s't'raw, stalks, grain, or whatever is to be stackedup,,.eaeh length overlapping" or. breaking joint with thepreviously-laid'one,and-then by rolling up or drawing together thejedge's ofs'aidmatand ,passingaround'a band onbands completing said stack. 'My spread-outmat bears the same relation to the ,tin'ished stack whietrit is to formas a spread out batbears to the, hat which it is to form;

Theentire substance of the fil'iishetl thing is i in the original blankor stock and merely requires form to perfect it. V

My inventionconsists in forming a stack'ot' ,any material'out of two,three, four, or more lengths of the material which overlap 0r l 'i eak'joint with each other, the heads all pointing to a common center; and soarranged as that when .the radial sides of the spread-out material aredrawn together and bound a conical or pyramidal stack shall-beformed.

To enable othe'rs skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

Upon an apron, A,'-or upon cords or linked bands 0 of any-suitableflexible material, I lay a strata or row, b, of the material to bestacked, with theseed ends pointing towarda common center. Upon thisfirst row 1 lay a' second,

third, and tburth, each with their seed ends I pointing to the samecenter as the first one, but ,ea'ch row in succession receding from theapex or center toward the base, so that the butts ct:

atrhetirstshall eoverthepanielesbf,the second row, and the secondcoverthose ofi the third, and so on. The rows are thus built up on eachotheruntil sufficient is furnished to form the stack. It the apron hasbeen used-to build upon, the cords or whatever forms the bands shouldhave been previously laid acrosssaid apron at suitable distances fromeach other.

It the cords or any other sufficiently flexible bands are used withoutthe apron, then they should have been previonslylaid out to form the matupon. When the mat is laid up the apron or hands are drawn and tightlybound around the stack, and it-may then be set up on end arid it iscompleted.

That portion of the material that forms the interior of the stack neednotbe so carefully placed as that which forms the outer portion of it. V

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Making a staekout ot" two, three, four, or more lengths of straw orother material that overlap, or break joint with each other, and

whicltarelai l with their seed ends pointing to a commoncen'tenanrLcommencing at the apex and ending at tlie fbas'e and drawntogether and'secured, substantiallyqas herein represented, using as afoundation lto build upon an apron or the bindingcords orehains. as setforth. s CARLOS .V. GLOVER. v

Witnesses:

'A. G. FISHER,

Tnos. On'roN.

